Word: tacos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...goodbye to John Mitchell, Rose Mary Woods, the California Angels and Bill Garcia? Richard and Pat Nixon, moving eastward into a Manhattan condominium, did it with two poolside margarita, taco, guacamole and fruit kebab parties at La Casa Pacifica. Former Attorney General Mitchell, marking his 66th birthday, was guest of honor at the first, a reunion to which 250 old hands of the Nixon Administration were invited. "John Mitchell has friends and he stands beside them," said the ex-President of the man who went to jail for obstructing justice in the Watergate investigations. The second party featured...
...teeming mass of Hispanic shoppers. Record-store loudspeakers blare Mexican hits: Juro que Nunca Volveré (I Swear I'll Never Return), Mi Fracaso (My Downfall). The Orpheum Theater, where Al Jolson once sang in blackface, screens Spanish-language dubbings of anglo hits. An archipelago of taco and burrito carts dots the street. Stores and merchandise stands tout their wares: vestidos, tocadiscos, muebles (clothing, phonographs, furniture). Farther east, on Whittier Boulevard, young Hispanics express themselves with a unique form of Saturday night fever known as "low riding"-cruising in ornately decorated autos equipped with hydraulic pumps that lower...
...dinnertime at the Manhattan publishing offices of G.P. Putnam's Sons. The last bag of taco chips had long since tumbled from the corridor vending machine, but Subsidiary Rights Director Irene Webb, 30, and her colleagues were not leaving their desks. June 15, 1978, was a day for executive field rations. Since 9:30 a.m. Webb's ear had been grafted to her telephone, accepting bids for what ended as the most expensive paperback auction in publishing history: $2.2 million for the rights to reprint Mario Puzo's new novel, Fools Die, plus $350,000 to reprint his alltime bestselling...
...foul my career up just as well as somebody else, so why not try it?" The Malpaso Co. is named after a creek that runs through the Eastwood property on the Monterey peninsula. The outfit operates with a minuscule staff from a bungalow in Burbank known locally as the Taco Bell because of its resemblance to the fast-food joints. "If I've got a six-pack under my arm, a few pieces of paper and a couple of pencils, I'm in business," says the frugal proprietor...
...editors and publishers brought in from the outside and just passing through in their careers are often anxious not to rock the boat locally. Some have about as much feeling for a community's sense of itself and its needs as does the imported manager of a franchised taco joint on the highway outside town. A study of two dozen West Coast newspapers reported in the current Journalism Quarterly concludes that chain papers "have fewer argumentative editorials in controversial contexts on local topics ... The impact is not helpful to readers who seek guidance on local matters...